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11 All of us growl like hungry bears.
    We sound like doves as we mourn.
We want the Lord to do what is fair and save us.
    But he doesn’t do it.
We long for him to set us free.
    But the time for that seems far away.

12 That’s because we’ve done so many things he considers wrong.
    Our sins prove that we are guilty.
The wrong things we’ve done are always troubling us.
    We admit that we have sinned.
13 We’ve refused to obey the Lord.
    We’ve made evil plans against him.
    We’ve turned our backs on our God.
We’ve stirred up conflict and refused to follow him.
    We’ve told lies that came from our own minds.

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